New Zealand Listener

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The latest novel by the former GP turned short-story writer and novelist, ADDRESSED TO GRETA (Bateman, $34.99), is released on November 6. The books below stretch effortlessly beyond the page to explore aspects of the human condition in a unique, unf

Writer's Digest

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Ernest Hemingway’s writing advice gave strength to me to write. “All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” —Sayeed Anwar You have to work your writing muscles just like any other muscle in your body if you want them to get stronger and more

Poets & Writers

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NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION National Book Awards AMERICAN POETRY REVIEW Stanley Kunitz Memorial Prize CENTER FOR DOCUMENTARY STUDIES Dorothea Lange–Paul Taylor Prize GAUDY BOY PRESS Poetry Book Prize  LOST HORSE PRESS  Idaho Prize for Poetry  PITTSBURG

Knitscene

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1. THE CURSE OF THE BOYFRIEND SWEATER: Essays on Crafting by Alanna Okun The Curse of the Boyfriend Sweater is an important read celebrating our mutual love for craft. Alanna Okun is hilarious (we’ve never been so excited to read footnotes) and relat

Writing Magazine

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The Moth Short Story Prize 2021 is inviting new fiction entries. There is a €3,000 first prize in the annual contest for stories up to 5,000 words. The Moth Short Story Prize is run the The Moth magazine in Ireland and is for original, unpublished sh

Sunday Independent

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Trevor Noah’s “It’s Trevor Noah: Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood”, which is a young readers adaptation of his 2016 memoir, has been awarded the Youth Literature Award for 2020. The South African Literary Awards (SALA) celebrates

The Cottage Journal

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Subtle simplicity and the rich beauty of France draw you in while the recipes and history of each province invite you to stay in La Vie est Belle: The Elegant Art of Living in the French Style. Having grown up with a penchant for French culture that

delicious

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EDITORIAL DIRECTOR Kerrie McCallum EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Samantha Jones DIGITAL DIRECTOR John Hannan CREATIVE DIRECTOR Hayley Incoll EDITORIAL Deputy Editor Krysia Bonkowski Senior Subeditor/Copywriter Corinne Parkes Travel Editor Rosemary Slade Editorial

Writing Magazine

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Deep Overstock began simply as a journal to support booksellers who dreamed of writing. The editorial team, booksellers themselves, wanted to help their fellow frustrated writers. From this beginning grew the small press which now issues a quarterly

St. Louis Magazine

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In their debut poetry collection, Paul Tran is unbound by form or inhibition. The 28 poems of All the Flowers Kneeling, out February 8, communicate trauma, violence, lost homes, and lost selves with a tenderness and understanding that softens the rou

Writing Magazine

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A new poetry prize from the Edward Thomas Fellowship invites entries on any subject, in any style, up to 40 lines. Each writer may enter up to three poems. Prizes are £150, 2x£75 and up to six highly commended awards of £25. The judge will be poet Ja

Writing Magazine

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Devil’s Party Press is in favour of older writers. The editorial team ‘believed that there should be someone publishing older writers who had never been published before’. Why? Because ‘the older you get, the better your stories get, and the better y

Writer's Digest

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Rachel Sussman grew up in the suburbs of New York City, graduated from Brown University with a degree in English and American literature and began her publishing career at Scribner, where she honed her editorial skills for four years. Following a yea

Writing Magazine

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The Anthology Magazine Poetry Prize invites poems on the theme of ‘Expectations’. The international competition is for original, unpublished poems, up to 40 lines. The winner will receive €500 and their poem will be published in Anthology Magazine. T

Writing Magazine

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The Writers’ Weekend, to be held virtually, 24-27 June, is inviting entry for its creative writing competitions. • Flash Fiction Competition: Submit 300-word fiction. Prizes are £300, £200 and £100. Entry fee, £10, £8 for a second, £6 for a third. •

Literary Hub

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This is Joining Conversation, The Virtual Book Channel’s special event roundtable. Today’s conversation involves a small, diverse and wonderfully smart group of contemporary Native American writers. There’s thriller writer David Heska Wanbli Weiden,

Writing Magazine

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The theme of this year’s British Czech and Slovak Association Writing Competition is Freedom. Entries must be on the links between Britain and the lands now comprising the Czech and Slovak Republics or society in the Republics since 1989. The theme c

New Zealand Woman’s Weekly

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She lives in Los Angeles and is a poet and writer. As @sosadtoday, she has a huge Twitter following that includes several celebrities. Rolling Stone magazine named her one of its 50 Funniest People. This is Melissa’s second novel. This novel was in

Writing Magazine

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Writing East Midlands invite entries of new fiction and poetry for their national writing contest, the Aurora Prize for Writing 2021. Winners in each category will receive £500, feedback on their work from a leading literary agent or editor, a year’s

Writing Magazine

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Salt, the distinguished UK independent publisher of contemporary writing, is opening a submission window in November. Salt publishes fiction, narrative non-fiction and poetry, and has had some outstanding successes, particularly in recent years with

Poets & Writers

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And We Came Outside and Saw the Stars Again: Writers From Around the World on the COVID-19 Pandemic (Restless Books, August 2020), edited by Ilan Stavans, offers a global portrait of the disparate and shared experiences of life amid a pandemic. Essay

Writing Magazine

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Win a £2,000 first prize in the Troubadour International Poetry Prize 2022 from Coffee House Poetry, for unpublished poems up to 45 lines. The winner will receive £2,000. The second prize is £1,000 and the third prize, £500. Twenty further poets will

Popshot Magazine

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6 – Lydia Ruffles is the author of The Taste of Blue Light (Hodder, 2017). Her second novel, Colour Me In (Hodder Children’s Books), is out on 9 August. 12 – Helen Rear is an English Literature and Creative Writing student at Bangor University. She i

Writing Magazine

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Ware Open Poetry Competition 2022 has £600, £300 and £150 prizes for original, unpublished poems on any theme, up to 50 lines. There is also the Ware Sonnet Prize of £150 for the best sonnet submitted. This year’s judge is Jonathan Edwards. The entry

Literary Hub

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Click below to watch the virtual meeting of the Alta California Book Club, which Books Editor of Alta Journal David Ulin describes as: an opportunity for us to rethink the book club as a kind of ongoing process involving events, involving posts and i

New Zealand Listener

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This choice is as much about where I was in the world when I discovered In My Father’s Den (1972) as it is about the book itself. It was 1987. I’d been in London long enough to have reimagined New Zealand as a bucolic utopia and then be bored by the

Writing Magazine

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The prize in the Coast to Coast to Coast Individual Poet Journal competition is fifteen copies of the winning journal in hand-stitched covers. Enter twel pages of poetry with a title. The entry fee is £11. The closing date is 30 April. Website: www.m

The Writer

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March 3-7 After proceeding with a controversial in-person conference last March, AWP vowed to go entirely online for the 2021 gathering, offering discounted registration rates for all attendees. If you’ve always wanted to experience the largest writi

Literary Hub

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The Hay Festival, now in its 21st year, brings writers and readers together in a free digital space of thoughtful conversation, storytelling, comedy, and family fun. This year, the Festival has been streamed live with a star-studded line-up of speake

Writing Magazine

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The Sentinel Literary Quarterly Poetry competition is for poems in any style up to 50 lines and has prizes of 250, £125 and £75. The entry fee is £5 per poem. The closing date for this quarter’s contest is 31 July. Website: https://sentinelquarterly.